Maya  is certified clinical Hanna Somatic Educator (CHSE), an Equine Hanna Somatic Educator and a graduate of The Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in California, USA.

Gayatri holds a bachelor’s degree in Education (BScED) with the focus on health promotion, education and kinaesthetic learning. She is a co-founder of Living Somatics and has brought Hanna Somatics to Sweden. Together with her team, she also introduced the work to the Russian speaking countries. Gayatri is passionate about making Somatic disciplines available to the world, and to connect and grow the global somatic community. She has been a co-host of the virtual Somatic Movement Summit 2020-2023.  Gayatri now lives in Sweden and consults clients internationally, and teaches practitioner trainings and workshops in-house and online. Additionally, she has been facilitating women’s circles for 20 years and co-facilitates women’s leadership programs with her sister Jahanavi Schriefer.
Over the course of her adult life Gayatri has travelled the world studying somatic movement and spiritual methods, including Hanna Somatics, Equine Somatics, the Feldenkrais Method®, Watsu, Body Mind Centering®, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Qi-gong, martial arts, several styles of yoga, dance, meditation, energy healing work, and Native American tracking.
Gayatri’s mission is to offer pathways to greater self-connection, transformation and elevation in the somatic lived experience. She is a firm believer that each person is self-responsible, self-regulating and self-healing. Through her facilitations Gayatri creates a field of wholeness for you to align yourself with the life you love.